"The Church has always venerated the Divine Scriptures as she venerated the Body of the Lord, in so far as she never ceases, particularly in the Sacred Liturgy, to partake of the Bread of the Word of God and the Body of Christ.

She has always regarded, and continues to regard the Scriptures, taken together with Sacred Tradition, as the Supreme Rule of her faith. Since they are inspired by God and committed to writing once and for all time, they present God's own Word in an unalterable form, and they make the Voice of the Holy Spirit resound again and again in the words of the Prophets and Apostles." - Die Verbum, 21

God's WORD, Christ himself, is always conveyed through the inspired written words in Sacred Scripture. When Lectors read the Sacred Scripture in Church, we voice the human word that literally carries the Eternal WORD out to the People of God.